Efraín "Cholo" Trelles Aréstegui (28 May 1953 – 1 April 2018) was a

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vian historian, writer, journalist and sports commentator for press, television and radio. Efraín Trelles was born in 1953, in

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. Historian trained in colonial history, graduated by the

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, with a thesis that became the classic: ''Lucas Martínez Vegazo: operation of an initial Peruvian encomienda''. He was one of the pioneers in introducing the analysis of data and computer models in his study on the loyalties of the kurakas in the

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, which he published with Magnus Mörner in 1986. He then traveled to the University of Austin to do his doctorate studies. His foray into sports journalism began as a personal hobby. He worked as a columnist in several newspapers of the Peruvian capital as ''Expreso'' and ''

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''. He worked as a journalist and historian in RPP and

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. His last work was as host of the program ''La cátedra'' at

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, along with Roberto Zegarra, Wilmer del Aguila, Ítalo Villarreal, Martín Fernández, Miguel Portanova, Santos Calderón, Dante Mateo, Tito Ponte, Josè Espinoza, among other journalists. Efraín Trelles ¡Tayta Quipu tupananchikama!

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1953 births 2018 deaths Pontifical Catholic University of Peru alumni Peruvian television journalists Peruvian sports journalists 20th-century Peruvian historians 21st-century Peruvian historians People from Andahuaylas province 20th-century Peruvian journalists 21st-century Peruvian journalists {{Peru-bio-stub